brachycephalic

From brachy- +‎ cephalic, literally “short-headed”.

brachycephalic (comparative more brachycephalic, superlative most brachycephalic)

1. (of a person or animal) Having a head that is short from front to back (relative to its width from left to right).
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "Round-headed," he muttered. "Brachycephalic, gray-eyed, black-haired, with suggestion of the negroid. Celtic, I presume?"

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 153:

     Just how cosmopolitan the town was is clear from the fact that two different races are found buried in the graves: the dolichocephalic Eurafrican, and the brachycephalic Proto-Mediterranean.

   • 1996, William H. Tucker, The Science and Politics of Racial Research‎, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 23:

     Also a subject of extensive investigation was the cephalic index, a measurement of the general shape of the skull, defined as the ratio of its breadth to its length multiplied by one hundred to eliminate the decimal point. Ratios below seventy-five indicated skulls that were long and narrow, termed “dolichocephalic”; those between seventy-five and eight, slightly broader or “mesocephalic”; and even rounder heads with ratios above eighty were called “brachycephalic.”

brachycephalic (plural brachycephalics)

1. A brachycephalic person or creature.

• brachy

• brachycephaly, brachycephalism, brachycephalous
• dolichocephalic